Mar 29, 2012 | Big Shot, Designer Series Paper, Easter, Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Scrapbook Pages |
So today I have the Bunny Scrapbook Layout that I mentioned yesterday. I used the same bunny idea from the box and added a body and put it on this layout.
Isn’t the bunny so cute – I used the large Dresdan die petal to make the body – just trimmed it at the bottom of the page. Remember yesterday I said I used one of the large petals to punch the bunny cheeks, well here I also punched the paws and the tail from that same piece.
Along the bottom of the layout I rolled the Every Egg Stampin’ Around Wheel – I used an Old Olive ink cartridge because that was what I had on hand. But Lucky Limeade is the green in the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper that I used on the page. Since it is wheeled on the Crumb Cake background it matches just fine for me.
I used the Circles #2 Die and the Big Shot along with the 3-1/2″ Circle Die and cut various circles out of the Designer paper and just scattered those along the top of the page. Added some more of the squished paper flowers and a Happy Easter flag.
Now I just need to add some pictures on the Poppy Parade panel that goes across both pages.
When Kyle was little I took him once to see the Easter Bunny – he was at our local grocery store and the kids could sit on his lap and get their picture made. Kyle screamed like you wouldn’t believe – I have that picture somewhere – it was before this digital age so I’ll have to find it. I’m not sure I ever took the other boys to see the Easter Bunny since it was so traumatic for Kyle that one time. I’ll have to look and see if I have any – they would be fun on this page even if they are from different years.
So have a nice day – it’s really pretty here again.
Mar 28, 2012 | Big Shot, Easter, Occasions Mini 2012, Punch Art, Sale-A-Bration 2012, Wildlife |
Well it’s getting close to Easter and I better start sharing Easter projects before it is too late. This super cute Easter Bunny idea came from my friend and upline Wendy Randall. I thought it was just perfect for my Easter class so we made this a couple of weeks ago and during the class I started thinking how cute he would be on a scrapbook page so at last weeks scrapbook class we did just that. Today I’ll share the box and tomorrow I’ll show you the scrapbook page.
Isn’t this the cutest bunny ever?
Don’t you love the big floppy ears? Those are from the Dresdan Die in the Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog. This is a Big Shot/Punch Art project. For the ears I cut two sets of the Dresdan die petals and for the ears I used the smaller ones. I used one of the large ones to punch out the cheeks for the bunny face. And tomorrow you’ll see what I did with the other one. The bunny face is the Scalloped Oval Frame die – just use the inside oval and save the scallop frame for something else.
The cheeks are the 1″ circle punch and the eyes are Basic Black punched from the 1/2″ circle punch. His nose is Pretty in Pink small heart punch turned upside down. The whiskers and mouth are drawn on with the Black Journaler and there are some white gel pen highlights on his eyes. The inside of the ears are sponged with Pretty in Pink and the outsides of the face and cheeks are also sponged.
The box is Pretty in Pink (scored with the Simply Scored – love it!) and a piece of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper from the Sale-A-Bration brochure is added to the box front and back. A handle is attached with the coordinating brads. A piece of the Calypso Coral ribbon was tied around one of the ears.
The little flower embellishment is fun to make – I used a strip of the designer paper 6″ long by about 1-1/4 or 1-1/2″ wide – punched first with the Eyelet Border punch. Then I used my bone folder to curl and break up the fibers of the paper so it would be easy to work with. Then starting at on end pleat the paper and fold it into a circle to create the flower. Just smoosh it into the shape you want it. The center has a punch flower from the Boho Blossom punch to cover up the ends of the pleats. I used the crop-a-dile to punch a hole through the center of all of it and added the brad to hold it all together. If you need to add some snail or other adhesive to make the ends stay together you can but you don’t necessarily need that. Add to the bunny ear with a stampin dimensional and then add a tag that says “Happy Easter”.
Fill the box with some treats and you have a super cute Easter treat for someone sweet.
And a quick update on the birds – it looks like the chickadees ended up with 5 eggs this year.
Now we wait while they incubate which is about 11-12 days. So maybe by the end of next week the babies will start hatching.
As for the bluebirds and other houses – no luck in any of them. Just the starter nest in one which I guess didn’t suit the bluebirds after all. I’ll keep watching – maybe some later bloomers will move in soon or we’ll get the second brood for those that have more than one set of eggs in the spring. Everyone is still coming to the yard to feed. But I do need to refill the feeders.
It’s also time to hang the hummingbird feeder again (actually I should have already done it). I’ll get to that in the next day or so.
It’s a beautiful spring day in Georgia – I hope it is where you are too.
Mar 27, 2012 | Demonstrator, My Digital Studio, Occasions Mini 2012 |
Earlier this month I had a full Saturday filled with fun and learning and my Stampin’ Up! demonstrator friends. This first part of the day we learned about My Digital Studio and created some “Beyond the Page” projects. And that evening was our meeting where we shared ideas, learned business tips and created some fun projects. I already shared the swaps from that meeting in an earlier post but I wanted to share with you our My Digital Studio projects we made earlier in the day. Cindy Schuster and I worked together to create these projects and we love how they turned out. With the new Summer Smooches Suite of products being available as an early sneak peek in April we decided to use that as our theme for the projects – so we have bright and colorful creations.
First here is our group at our My Digital Studio Retreat –
Monika, Lisa B., Lisa S., Barbara, Sue, Leishman, Diane, Laree, Fran, Cindy
Cindy and I made bags for everyone with their project supplies and hand outs – Cindy created personalized tags using My Digital Studio and the Summer Smooches Digital Kit that will be available in April.
For each project we spent time doing the creating in My Digital Studio and going over tips and tricks on how we created the project. And then we actually made the projects – we pre-printed the My Digital Studio parts ahead of the retreat. One of our projects is this cute little bag that is made with an Iron-On Transfer – everyone can use these to carry their supplies to our meetings in the future. The centers of the flowers are the Brights Designer Buttons that you can get free during Sale-A-Bration – which ends March 31st. Cindy sewed the bags for us – like I’ve said before I have determined that I am not a seamstress. Cindy on the other hand is!
Our next project is a piece of Wall Art created in the subway art style and then embellished with stamps, fabric, card stock, ribbon and a crystal bauble. I started with the Love What You Do digital stamp image and made changes and additions to end up with the Statement of the Heart. It’s a piece of art that each demonstrator can place in her creative area or give as a gift to a new recruit or use as a display item at workshops.
The third project we created was a swatchbook project with the TOP 10 reasons to love My Digital Studio – it is a little business tool that everyone can use to show their customers what you can do with My Digital Studio – we listed 10 reasons we love it, details of bot the full CD version and the Downloadable Express version and included pictures of various projects on the back of each page. We started with the Twitterpated Swatchbook template and then made modifications to get our end result.
Top 10 - #1
I had to add a caption to that one since the right hand side is all white it blended in with the background on my blog and looked weird. Anyway here is reason #1 – we had 10 total. It’s a fun little book and hopefully everyone will find it useful, easy to carry around and cute enough to share with everyone.
Enjoy you day!
Mar 22, 2012 | Occasions Mini 2012, Sale-A-Bration 2012, SU Ribbon |
There was lots of fun ribbon in the Occasions Mini catalog. My favorites are the seam binding and baker’s twine. Plus the Sale-A-Bration had some fun ribbon too. For everyone that participated in my ribbon share for the Occasions Mini catalog I made them the cute little craft box and filled it with all their ribbon (and the SAB brads too).
I covered each of the four sides of the box with some of the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series paper and then wrapped some of the Calypso Coral ribbon around it. I added a little jewelry tag too.
I hope everyone likes their ribbon share. I’m hoping to have another ribbon share in April – I’ll make plans and send it out with my April newsletter.
On another note remember Monday all the things I rambled on about. Well the fridge/freezer seems to be working just fine now – the repairman thinks someone left the freezer door open which caused the snowstorm inside and then I guess the freezer was trying to eliminate all the frost so it was getting warm – I don’t know but I cleaned out the inside, cleared out all the frost and now it seems to be working. Then my itchy spot that I thought was a mosiqito bite – well it wasn’t exactly that and by Wednesday I had spots on my arm and all over my stomach and they were spreading and red and itchy! So i went yesterday to the dermatologist and now I have meds and cream – they said it was a delayed allergic reaction to a bug bite that I probably got last week during the one hour that I did some yard work ( I also got a blister that day) – so doctor’s orders – don’t do yard work in March – he really did say that but Greg doesn’t believe me.
Ok – moving on about my day – getting ready for scrapbook class tomorrow.
Mar 21, 2012 | Cards, Demonstrator, Easter, Masculine, Occasions Mini 2012 |
My March Demonstrator Meeting was a ton of fun. I wanted to share with you the swaps from our meeting – our theme was Easter, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day.
Anne's Swap
Christine's Swap
Cindy's Swap
Diane's Swap
Fran's Swap
LaRee's Swap
Leishman's Swap
Lisa's Swap
Monika's Swap - and matching envelope made with the Simply Scored and Diagonal Plate
I hope you enjoyed all these ideas.
Mar 20, 2012 | Baroque Motifs, class, Occasions Mini 2012, Scrapbook Pages, Stampin' Up! Events |
My next scrapbook class is this FRIDAY! If you would like to attend please RSVP so I can have materials ready for you.
March 2012 – Scrapbook Class Reminder
Come join me on Friday for Scrapbooking Class!
This layout was from my February Class.
We will be making two new 2-page layouts this month.
Scrapbook Class
Friday, March 23rd
at 10AM and 7PM– Scrapbook Class
Come join me for my scrapbook class this week.
We are making two 2-page 12×12 layouts.
The class fee is $20.
Please bring snail adhesive and paper snips.
RSVP by Wed. night so I can have materials ready for you.
RSVP directly from the events on my website calendar.
If you are a demonstrator the scrapbook layout from last month may look a bit familiar – it is modified version of the layout that we made during our Make&Take Session at Leadership. I took the 8×8 page and stretched it into a 2-page 12×12 layout. What do you think?
Background is Old Olive stamped with Baroque Motifs. The original 8×8 page is on the right page of the layout and I add another strip of Baja Breeze Designer Series paper to the left – the same height but wider and the card stock layer behind it. I took the elements on the left side of the original 8×8 layout and moved them over to the left page. Then added some extra blossoms from the set in the Occasions Mini Catlalog to fill in. The two banners are on skewers – they were punched with the Pennant punch.
